All The King's Men details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, Mercedes McCambridge, John Ireland |
| Director: | Robert Rossen |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Studio: | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Collections: | Best Picture Oscar Winners |
| Name | Discs | |
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All The King's Men |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 09 Jul 2001 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Dubbed: | German, French, Spanish, Italian |
| Subtitles: | Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
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A sharp political treatise
By RJNeb2 (922 reviews) from London , 02 Oct 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Still pertinent and penetrating account of how a local man-of-the-people rises to the ranks of senator and loses complete sight of what he's supposed to be representing. The notion of absolute power corrupting absolutely is not a new one but in the hands of this cast (Crawford excellent as the senator, Ireland his increasingly savvy press agent and McCambridge as his jaded secretary) and this director, it's a riveting tale.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)Story line would be fresh today
By pixie (238 reviews) from Redruth , 10 May 2013This film won the Oscar for the Best Film in 1950. However the story could fit right in with today, small man becomes a Governor for the people but ends up being as twisted and corrupt as the men he once deplored.- Was this review helpful to you?
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All the kings men
By bennet12 (42 reviews) from West Malling , 01 Mar 2009Very powerful but quite busy in places. Worth a look.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Changing Guard
By Charles Brickley from Andover, Hampshire England , 19 Oct 2006I was pleased to eventually see the performances and story that won so many accolades in 1949.
Of course it is dated and the ending came on a bit fast but within the film itself there had been a lot of TLC put into creating the tale of the downfall of an 'Honest Man' or 'Honest Men & Women' as it turned out.
Made at the time when studios still had their stables of actors who turned their art on for whatever role they were given, the characters melded well together.
Of course it was believeable, it was based on a real Hick who cracked the secret of attaining real power and then paying the real price.
I shall be interested to see how the remake fares against the original, albeit the cut version.
Worth the money!- Was this review helpful to you?
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quality all round
By chungking (101 reviews) from London , 11 Dec 2005The original novel ‘All the Kings Men’ won the Pulitzer prize and the writer, Robert Penn Warren, was Americas first poet laureate. Director Robert Rossen made ‘The Hustler’. Broderick Crawford was a character actor par excellence and appeared in over a hundred films. John Ireland was another character actor with a varied C.V. and appeared in, amongst others, Tinto Brass’ depraved anti-war film ‘Salon Kitty’, the 1975 version of ‘Farewell My Lovely’ with Robert Mitchum and Howard Hawks’ great western ‘Red River’. For Mercedes McCambridge, just watch ‘Johnny Guitar’, you’ll never forget her.
So good credentials all round make for an abrasive, searing indictment of political shenanigans as relevant today as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Predictable
By Sevenoaks134 from N IRELAND , 31 Oct 2005This film does not boast a great cast in terms of the names from the stage of the 40s. However, it does have a dubious storyline where a simple farmer stands up for what he believes in from a workers rights point of view. He soon finds himself running for governor and gradually becomes embroiled in all the corruption and scheming that he has been criticizing all along. The film is told from a journalists viewpoint and it is the journalist – John Ireland – who semi-narrates the story. It is a predictable film with some good acting. Nevertheless it is a tad long.- Was this review helpful to you?
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